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At IPS Lanka, clients are offered a comprehensive range of required audits. These audits are termed Integrated Compliance Monitoring (ICM) and comprise of four main audit sections that deal with:

Labour Standards Audit

Our labour standards audits take into account the complexities involved in the varied aspects on how employees are treated in regards to wages, working hours and work conditions. These audits help ascertain as to how a business treats its employees and the environment and ensures that a business meets minimum stipulated labour standards.

Our auditors will meet with facility management and explain the purpose of the visit, collect necessary documentation and conduct an extensive tour of the facility to ensure that all health and safety precautions are adhered to.

Onsite interviews with employees are conducted to determine that they are treated fairly. Wage and attendance records are inspected thoroughly to ensure that no violations have occurred in relation to payment of minimum wages, work hours and that the hiring process is in line with the labour laws of the country.

Any labour standards violations or shortfalls are followed up with suitable corrective action before facility approval takes place.

IPS Lanka labor standards audit programs are based on the following code of conduct elements:
  • Compliance with the law of the land
  • Meeting at least minimum wages and benefits
  • Ensuring that maximum working hours are not exceeded
  • Zero tolerance for forced labour
  • Zero tolerance for child labour
  • At least minimum health and safety standards are met
  • Non-discrimination of workforce.
  • No corporal punishment has taken place
  • Freedom of association amongst employees is visible and present
  • That the facility operates in an anti‐corruption / anti‐bribery environment
  • That facility sub-contractors (if any) meet all above stipulated conditions

Brand Protection Audit

Our brand protection audit is a well structured audit program that is unique to IPS Lanka.

Why do you need brand protection? The primary responsibility of this audit is to safeguard the reputation of the client’s brands that are internationally recognized and could be targeted for illegal activities such as counterfeiting, trademark infringement, intellectual property rights violations etc.

Such illegal activities negatively impacts the clients business and could give rise to larger issues including product liability.

Brand protection audits are client customised and may include the following elements and are based on facility management interviews, surprise facility tours, documentation reviews and a host of other supporting criteria.

  • Photo control
  • Sample / showroom control
  • Sub-contract control on the printing, embroidery, washing process etc.
  • Control of Raw Material with brand logo or Trademarks
  • Control of Rejected Garments / Overproduction
  • Destruction Control (Documentation)
  • Sell-Off Control
  • Controlled storage of finished goods / warehouse access control
  • Control of issuing of authentic labels with customer logos and trademarks
  • Destruction of reject quality products and over runs

Supply Chain Security Audit (C-TPAT)

Supply chain security is a critical component of doing international business for many a client and at IPS Lanka, we strongly believe in and support all efforts to maintain secure channels for moving finished products from point of origin to its destination prior to final distribution.

The C-TPAT program is a voluntary partnership between the private sector and U.S. Customs and Border protection (CBP). The program is focused on developing and improving security processes throughout the global supply chain and thereby enhance U.S. border security.

We carry out C-TPAT audits as per client requirements and cater to tier one, two, and three supply chain security needs.

Our program includes the following areas of evaluation;

  • Physical security of goods
  • Secure loading procedures
  • Access control
  • Personnel security and business partner reviews
  • Information Technology (IT) security
  • Education and training awareness

Trade Compliance

The objective of trade compliance is to assess the production facility’s ability to provide complete and accurate documentation upon request from U.S. Customs and Border protection.

We will determine the factory’s ability to do this by observing inventory and production records. While quotas may no longer be applicable, some clients still have a legal responsibility to accurately report country of origin and place of manufacture for each purchase order. This makes it all the more important to ensure that the facility concerned is in fact actually capable of making the product and has not participated in any unauthorised subcontracting work.

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